Word: gorbymania
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...time, the West is preparing for the possibility that reactionary generals might come to dominate Soviet security policy. Defense officials in the U.S. and Europe are already rethinking hopes for new reductions in conventional and nuclear forces. "It's lucky we didn't dissolve NATO in the euphoria of Gorbymania," says a senior British diplomat. No one expects the turmoil in Moscow to result in a new attempt to subjugate Eastern Europe or even to slow the departure of Soviet troops. "The Soviet withdrawal will go ahead as planned," predicted Klaus Segbers of Germany's Institute for Science and Policy...
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